[OSM-talk] National borders in the British Islands

[Shaun McDonald]

On 29 May 2008, at 13:31, Bruce Cowan wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 08:57 +0200, Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio wrote:
>> According to Mapnik, Scotland and Wales have declared independence,
>> and Northern Ireland is part of the Republic of Ireland. Did I miss
>> something?
>
> Give it a few years, then it will be true.
>

:-)

> Seriously, the number system for borders is rather strange, surely  
> there
> must be a more obvious scale. I suppose this has been mentioned before
> though.

I thought people are using things like district, country, city, town  
etc for the boundaries, rather than a numeric value.

Shaun